Author: DOuG pRATt
Beatles, Peanuts, and Me
Christmas memories, 1968 — The White Album and $1 Peanuts books.
Explicit Lyrics: Parental Advisory
The very adult female complaint expressed in yesterday’s Hägar the Horrible comic strip was stated musically — and explicitly — ten years ago by British bad girl Lily Allen.
Hagar Slacks
The subject of Saturday’s Hägar the Horrible is just about the most adult that a mainstream comic strip can get! Old Hägar is either slow picking up on the young lady’s suggestive advance, or quick to think up a clever comeback to discourage her. And good thing, as she appears to be about the age of his daughter Honi!
Crustacean Inspiration
“I was at a dance club one night in Bermuda… Upstairs, they were playing disco, and downstairs I suddenly heard ‘Rock Lobster’ by the B-52’s for the first time. Do you know it? It sounds just like Yoko’s music, so I said to meself, ‘It’s time to get out the old ax and wake the wife up!’”
– John Lennon, December 5, 1980
A Modern Christmas Classic
A lot of singers hope to have a new Christmas song that catches on, but they very rarely succeed. Mariah Carey did it with “All I Want For Christmas,” a record that will already be a quarter century old next year.
For me, 2:26 is when the song goes from outstanding to superb. I first saw this video thanks to my friend, the gorgeous and talented international recording artist Lia Pamina. And since I mentioned Lia, here she is.